The Cast of Gossip Girl: Where Are They Now?

From Little J’s real life transformation to the gothic front woman of ‘The Pretty Reckless’, and lonely boy’s onscreen makeover to portray singing legend Jeff Buckley, we’ve tracked down all your favourite stars from Gossip Girl and where they are now…
- by
Imogen Pearson

19 Sep
2016

Blake Lively

It’s no secret this blonde-beauty catapulted into stardom after her iconic portrayal of the beautiful, wealthy ‘it’ girl of the Upper East Side, Serena Van Der Woodsen. Lively was just 20 years old when she scored the sought after role, and 4 years on from the series finale, it’s safe to say the star is truly holding her own.

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Blake Lively

From her critically acclaimed performance in Oliver Stone’s ‘Savages’, to her *gorgeous* hubby Ryan Reynolds and their two daughters James and Ines, Blake Lively is living proof that you can have it all!

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Leighton Meester

Constance Billard’s Queen Bee and Serena’s best frenemy Blair Waldorf aka Leighton Meester said goodbye to the scandalous world of Gossip Girl and hello to a career in music.

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Leighton Meester

She released her debut album ‘Heartstrings’ in 2014 along with a slew of accompanying music videos that have amassed millions of views on YouTube. The A-lister has also modelled as the face of brands such as Jimmy Choo and Vera Wang and starred in several movies, including the 2014 box office hit ‘The Judge’. Oh, and not to mention, Blair fell in love and married Seth Cohen, uh, we mean, Adam Brody!

Taylor Momsen

After ‘Gossip Girl’ wrapped up filming, the leggy platinum-blonde songstress burst out onto the music scene with her hard rock band ‘The Pretty Reckless’. The band found commercial success with their pop punk hit ‘You Make Me Wanna Die’, and is currently working on their third studio album, ‘Who You Selling For’.

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Penn Badgley

When the series finale revealed *that* shocking twist ending, all of us Serena & Dan fans were left majorly upset after seeing lonely boy’s true colours…

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Penn Badgley

Since then, Dan Humprey aka Penn Badgley starred as the late singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley in ‘Greeting from Tim Buckley’, where he showed off his musical talents. In the years following, Badgley has fronted several movies and TV series, including the U.S. adaptation of ‘The Slap’ and upcoming rom-com, ‘The Paper Store’!

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Chace Crawford

Never fear Nate Archibald fans, you can still see the blue-eyed, all-American hunk on your TV screens – and, no, not just by binge watching ‘Gossip Girl’ on Netflix all day long!

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Chace Crawford

The Upper East Side’s ‘Golden Boy’ recently starred in ‘Blood & Oil’, a ten-episode soap opera TV series, and can also be found starring alongside his onscreen cousin Trip van der Bilt aka Aaron Tveit in the newly released comedy ‘Undrafted’.

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Ed Westwick

The Upper East Side’s bad boy that you loved to hate and hated to love stuck with his TV roots and continued causing non-stop drama in the erotic thriller series, ‘Wicked City’.

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Ed Westwick

If you’re lusting after Ed’s charming, raspy voice or missing that signature slicked back Chuck Bass hair, be sure to check out his latest performance alongside ‘Glee’s’ Dianna Agron when ‘Jekyll Island’ drops later this year!